Héctor Huerga Encabo
Location
Barcelona
Description
Before joining the CaixaResearch Institute, he worked at the Francis Crick Institute as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dominique Bonnet. During this time, he demonstrated that certain mutations evolve in response to environmental stresses and alter the development of innate immune cells, such as neutrophils and monocytes. Building on this work, his group investigates potential markers that may help predict which individuals could develop conditions such as cancer or cardiovascular diseases.
His research, published in journals such as Cell Stem Cell, Blood, The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Immunology and The Journal of Experimental Medicine, has helped to redefine the role of haematopoietic stem cells in health and disease. Huerga Encabo has been recognised with international fellowships such as the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund Fellowship, as well as grants from the European Haematology Association and Cancer Research UK.
Maite Mendioroz
Director of Navarrobiomed – Miguel Servet Foundation and principal investigator of the Neuroepigenetics Unit
Maite graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra (1996), specialising in neurology (MIR) at the Donostia Hospital. She completed her doctoral thesis at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and continued her training at the ...
María Martínez López
Immunologist and researcher, junior group leader at the CaixaResearch Institute
The immunologist María Martínez López is conducting her postdoctoral research at the Fundação Champalimaud in Lisbon, supported by a Junior Leader fellowship from the "la Caixa" Foundation. In July 2026, she will join the new research centre in ...
Rubèn López Vales
Full professor of the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology and researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UAB
Rubèn graduated in Biology from the Universitat de Girona in 2001 and obtained a doctorate in Neuroscience from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Canada (2006-2009). In 2009 ...